Shorts and stops: Prayers, bureaucrats, STAAR tests

Seeking happiness “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” — Guillaume Apollinaire Our rights The Declaration of Independence says that all men are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” John M. Grondelski writes, “The discussion about the origin of ‘rights’ often conflates situational privileges, such as the ‘right of way,’ with universal, God-given, natural rights that exist independent of governments.” In other words, these are God-given rights, as opposed to rights granted only by the authority of the government. He explained that certain human rights exist prior to any...

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